Internet domain suffix operator Nominet will provide financial support for the UK branch of cybersecurity accelerator Cylon as part of a strategic partnership that will run until December 2020.
Cylon will also receive in-kind support from Nominet as part of the deal. The accelerator’s other corporate partners include energy company Innogy, defence systems manufacturer BAE Systems and law firm Pinsent Masons.
Eight startups feature in Cylon’s seventh UK cohort, which will run for 13 weeks ending on June 12, 2018. Cylon will provide each participant with £15,000 ($21,000) in seed funding.
The cohort includes:
- Alias Robotics, which is building an “artificial immune system” to protect robots from cybersecurity threats.
- AttackFlow, the producer of security static analysis software that shields software developers’ source code.
- Keepnet Labs, whose holistic anti-phishing platform relies on artificial intelligence (AI) to promptly catch malicious attachments within emails.
- Risk Ledger, which is developing technology to stop data breaches across the supply chain.
- Sauron, the creators of a big data-orientated cyber surveillance platform for internet-of-things devices.
- Senseon, which is using AI and machine learning to facilitate real-time threat detection and cyber intelligence.
- Sweepatic, the developers of software that mimics the perspective of cyber intruders to give clients a better idea of their vulnerabilities.